« All One Quotes · Mark Twain's Page
One Quotes by Mark Twain
- One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
- A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.
- One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare
- It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.
- After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage…
- If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.
- When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how…
- Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.
- We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches…
- He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
- The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one…
- The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.
- I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the…
- I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.
- I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it.…
- One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.
- There has been only one Christian. They caught and curcified him-early.
- The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.
- I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl…
- We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle